I slept 7 hours last night! I took 2 pain pills before I went to bed and then none during the night. Today, I think I am alternating Ibuprophen and Norco (pain pill). So, I am in a good pattern for when I go home. I took a shower yesterday too. I walked alot again, but at the end of the day my feet got very swollen and I had to spend some time in bed. I did get to eat real food yesterday. I never “passed” the C-section real food test, but the doctor said it was OK. But then by the end of the day, after having eaten lunch, and still not having “passed” the test….I was pretty uncomfortable. With a little medical intervention, I had a break thru. (oh my, when did this become a blog about gas and suppositories? Where did I go wrong?)

To quote BAGD, the baby was very “boring” yesterday. We had a lot of visitors, Pookie, Geetle, Mamaw, Papaw, Grandma, Papa, Aunt Shel, and My Mark. She slept thru every single visit…except for making a few googly eyes at Mark. Yesterday’s patterns were pretty good. She slept 3-4 hours between feedings and then ate a 2 oz bottle. We missed out on some of our alert time yesterday. She just went right back to sleep. But I suppose it was a stressful day for her, she got a shot and had a hearing test. We are hoping for some staring contests today.

Its 6am right now. At 4 am she had a blood draw to see about her level of jaundice. She has some jaundice, but it looks like it will be minor. We will know more after the Pediatrician comes this morning and reviews the blood test.

Pookie and Geetle will not come over today. Its Saturday, but we thought it was important to give them some home time. For the past 2 days they have spent the morning at the hospital, ran home for a quick lunch and then got right on the bus for school. Pookie, especially, needs a good block of free time at home to just play. I think I have mentioned before how much he hates it when we pluck him off the school bus and throw him in the car for a trip to the grocery store. He truly enjoys his playtime at home and wants a good block of it every day. So, today they will stay home and BAGD will come to see them. there is a Hawkeyes football game on, that the 3 of them will pretend to watch together. (BAGD watches, Geetle eats the chips and either yells when BAGD does or makes observations like “Hey! there’s the band”and “Why are their pants so small?”, Pookie brings a pile of toys into the room and sits next to BAGD’s chair….its their thing.)

Aunt Kel is coming to visit today. Other than that, it will just be me and the baby until BAGD comes back.